In the anonymously written article “Soup,” the writer illustrates how Albert Yeganeh, the owner and chef of a soup restaurant, dedicates his life to soup and runs his successful business in an unusual strict way. Through the writer’s observational representation of the restaurant and procedures of the restaurant mentioned in the article, the vision of Albert Yeganeh being a successful soup perfectionist with a strong and stern personality is shown clearly. In the article, the writer first includes that Yeganeh’s restaurant is tiny and is located in New York. Yeganeh explains how he has devoted his life to his soup business; he spends his time creating all sorts of soup flavors and takes pride in them. His effort and time is always paid off when lines all the way out the store doors are seen (Soup 72). To eat Yeganeh’s soups, people are willing to wait as long as a half hour. Mr. Yeganeh has also tried to raise prices to strain out loud customers that do not comply with his store rules, but the lines continue to grow as well as his profits. On the other hand, Yeganeh’s long lines are not the only thing that catches the public’s eyes; Yeganeh is also well known for his strong and stern personality. Throughout the article, the writer continuously illustrates Yeganeh’s stern personality to the reader. In Yeganeh’s store, there is a sign that instructs customers to already have their selection of soup in mind and to move quickly and quietly. Yeganeh also makes it known that he runs his store how he likes it whether it is in the customer’s favor or not. In the article, Yeganeh states, “My Philosophy is: the customer is always wrong and I’m always right..”(73). Yeganeh also demonstrated his philosophy to the writer when he refused service to a lady who had not selected her choice of soup and complained about the prices. Yeganeh is easily irritated and does not care for customer service other than a quick in and out transaction. As well as customers can agree on his rude customer service, they can also agree that he truly has the best soups. In addition, his personality is not only visible to the public but also compliments his work inside the kitchen. In fact, his demanding personality is seen more within the
In the article, “Don’t Blame the Eater, by David Zinczenko discusses about his childhood and how it has affected him. In addition, he explains thoroughly about fast food and the companies behind it. Zincozenko also talks about fast food companies have affected him and other in today’s world.
In the essay written by Joey Franklin, the author exposes his own internal conflict, as well as the existing prejudice against fast food restaurant workers. The work is well developed, with the use of witty diction and tone, in addition to the appeals to rhetorical devices.
People come in from all around the country. A man from Maryland, a family from Texas, and a young lady from Oregon stood behind me in line. The restaurant brings people together, promotes community, and seems to be expanding in each person who walks through the door. It diffuses different cultures and welcomes anyone from any back ground and religion.
The study begins by explaining how much the residents of Gourmand love good food. They love food so much that that over time, a commission of distinguished chefs had decided that not any one should be capable of opening up a restaurant. If a restaurant was to be open, a chef would have to have 21 years of training, attend a prestigious school, and obtain a license to become a chef. These guidelines would ensure that when a resident would go to a restaurant, the food would be good. The first-class quality of food consequently rose the prices of restaurant meals to become very expensive.
Gordon Ramsay Holdings also has several business principal such as “Standards are the staple”, “Discipline yourself so the customers do not have to”, “Do not let business come to statistics”. At first, I was amazed that his restaurants were so successful not to mention the large profits he made. Normally, Chef is not good at running a business. Astonishing new came that for the first time, he has admitted that his hospitality empire almost came close to collapse recently. After an ambitious overseas expansion plan, his business went into total chaos, auditors from KPMG found that Ramsay company was losing millions of money. Opening ten restaurants in ten months, Ramsay admitted that his ego brings him down and it is way too fast to expand a company like
Anthony Bourdain, world renowned chef and television personality, in his autobiography Kitchen Confidential (2000), conveys his experiences working in the restaurant business-high tension and new stressors at just about every corner. More specifically in the chapter “Food is Pain,” he convinces his audience that the abilities to maintain concentration, handle stress, and keep pace with the quick movement of a high-pressure environment are extremely important. Bourdain shapes this through an anecdote of his past experience working under boiler man (Tyrone) at the Dreadnaught, with his development of ethos, use of imagery, and manipulation of syntax to not only draw in but appeal to a wider audience.
American novelist, Barbara Kingsolver, in her excerpt, “Stone Soup”, taken from, High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never, recounts the outrageous view that society has on divorced families/homes. Kingsolver’s purpose is to impress upon readers that it is okay for families to stem away from the traditional, “Dad, Mom, Sis, Junior”, family. She creates a persuasive tone in order to get rid of stereotypes and judgments of marital issues held by her readers and society. Through the effective use of anecdotes, appeals, and passionate diction, Kingsolver establishes her claim that blended families can get through life happy and perfectly fine by themselves or with close friends and family.
Tortilla Soup is a film that does more than give the viewer a good feeling. Tortilla Soup is a film with many uplifting qualities that the viewer can relate. The opening scene draws the viewer in as the main protagonists, Martin Naranjo played by Hector Elizondo, prepares a large meal with many different dishes for his family. The way that Naranjo manipulates the kitchen cutlery demonstrates that he is more than a cook. His skill demonstrates that he is a fine chef. The opening scene of Naranjo preparing the meal is very relaxing to watch his culinary skills at work. It was interesting that one of the dishes was a melon blossom soup. The author had never heard of or observed this dish being served, so it required some investigation. Tortilla Soup is an enjoyable film that introduces romance and comedy during the preparation and sharing of a special meal.
The kitchen is a stomach leading to the lower intestine, also known as the garbage and dishwashing section. Adjacent, the bathroom is the “Very rectum of the gastrointestinal system” (Ehrenreich 30). The anatomical description humanizes the workplace and allows the reader to imagine a grotesque and quite realistic restaurant. The name of the chain restaurant is so generic it creates the question: Have I eaten there before? Ehrenreich creates this visual in order to sympathize with the reader in recognition of how absurd this sounds to a middle class citizen and the sympathize with employees on just how gross it is.
Bernard Cooper the author of a short essay titled “Burl’s”. Burl’s is an autobiographic story of himself when he was about 8 years old and starting to learn all the differences and fine lines in the world. The essay starts out as a young boy seeing everything as it’s portrayed to be and not what is actually there. Cooper describes everything he sees from the restaurant’s name and chrome appliances to the waitresses brown uniforms. There are many themes and messages, and the theme that I deemed was most important will be discussed and analyzed throughout this paper. Bernard Cooper conveys hidden identity within everything through his use of description, imagery and symbolism. The main symbol he uses is the restaurant “Burl’s” itself.
Divorce will lead to happiness. As odd as divorce leading to happiness may sound, it contains truth. Stone Soup, written by Barbara Kingsolver, contains her personal experience with divorce, and the effects divorce had on her family. Kingsolver uses personal experience, to demonstrate that divorce frees the families from bondage.
Because of passion with cooking and dream to be a chef, I have read a lot of cookbooks, regional culinary books and books about famous chefs, some of them are interesting but none of them was attracted to me the most. Normally, I just found some my favorite recipes in such books. However, “Letters to a young chef”, a book contains a collection of letters which Chef Daniel Boulud wrote to Alex Lee whom worked alongside Daniel for ten years as a passionate young cook, truly brings me desire to make my dream come true as much as help me to broaden my knowledge about culinary arts.
I agree with you that the psychoanalytic theory, person-centered theory, and gestalt theory attempt to get the same goal but have different approaches in helping clients to solve their own problem. Overall, all counseling theories have the goal to improve the client’s life. I believe that mixing a little bit of all three theories would make a good “soup” in order to help clients. I also agree with you that it is more important a counselor be a good listener than a good talker. Listening is the way for a counselor to start to understand the client’s situation. What I like in person-centered counseling is that the counselor from this theory has an attitude of being completely with the child. According to Henderson and Thompson (2011), the counselor’s
The restaurant intends to sell fresh Asian foods, beer, fruit drinks, wines, and others. The competitive advantage of the products provided by Asian Spicy Food relies on the combination of dishes in the menu and on their originality. The restaurant's cooks will be selected based on their experience and creativity. This is because the owner of the restaurant intends to develop a business in this industry based on original products, different from those of competitors, but while maintaining traditional principles of the Asian cuisine. Asian Spicy Food will be
What do you think of when you hear pre-1950’s music? Do think of Frank Sinatra? Ella Fitzgerald? T-Bone Walker? Well a thing all three of them have in common is that they influenced and were influenced by the culture at the time. A great model that can represent the culture changing at the time is my model of a soup pan. The soup pan is not perfect by any means, as in my opinion it is impossible to perfectly show how American culture changed throughout the 1900’s.